A great round table discussion.

As noted on this blog on January 15th, the last person to turn Massachusetts this red was Ronald Reagan in 1980.

Of course, Obamacare is not the only reason Massachusetts independents swung to Scott Brown. The other major reason is national security and defense.

A majority of Bay State voters clearly reject the idea of civilian trials for war combatants.

As Brown said last night in his victory speech, “Our tax dollars should be spent on weapons to stop them, not lawyers to defend them.”

If that’s the consensus among Massachusetts Independents, you better believe that will resonate with voters across the country.

Now watch this drive…

Beautiful and just…

As Miles said in 1983, “Say what the fuck. If you can’t say it, you cant do it.”

I’m guessing Helen Thomas won’t be giving Obama a solid B+.

Video provided by Freedom’s Lighthouse.

American comedian Joan Rivers was bumped from a Continental flight to New Jersey from Costa Rica because she was singled out as a threat. I feel safer already!

Rivers, 76, was deemed a danger to national security and booted from a Newark-bound flight in Costa Rica on Sunday by a jittery Continental Airlines gate agent who found the two names on her passport fishy.

Her passport reads: Joan Rosenberg AKA Joan Rivers. Rosenberg was her late husband’s last name.

The “nasty and cruel” Continental gate agent bumped Rivers from the last flight out Sunday and the comedian found herself alone (her daughter, Melissa, flew out to Los Angeles earlier in the day) and with no ATM card and just $100 cash, she said.

Rivers’ tale of woe put a famous face on travel’s new reality – one that leaves many feeling like common criminals.

On a more infuriating note, independent war reporter and photographer Michael Yon was handcuffed upon entering a Seattle airport today for refusing to disclose his income. Michelle Malkin has all the details.

I’ve met Michael and have blogged about his enterprising war coverage as an embed in Iraq and Afghanistan for years. The idea of him being treated as a national security threat and handcuffed is as ridiculous as anything we’ve seen from Janet Clown-itano and her cadre.

On Christmas day, a man boarded an international flight in Nigeria. He had no luggage and paid for his ticket in cash. His own father had telephoned government officials to warn them that his son posed a threat, yet he was able to board the plane which he promptly tried to blow up.

Now we have 76 year old comedians and war correspondents being singled out as threats?

Don’t worry though, the government will do a much better job with health care.

Glenn Beck’s guest host is Eric Bolling of the FOX News Business Channel.

“Fire Janet Napolitano” is the general consensus. On a side note, I think Charles Payne is a great substitute host for Glenn Beck! Video provided by The Right Scoop.

Josh Gerstein at the Politico argues that everything would be better if people would just stop attacking Obama and treat him with the respect everyone gave George W. Bush…

“Eight years ago, a terrorist bomber’s attempt to blow up a transatlantic airliner was thwarted by a group of passengers, an incident that revealed some gaping holes in airline security just a few months after the attacks of September 11. But it was six days before President George W. Bush, then on vacation, made any public remarks about the so-called “shoe bomber,” Richard Reid, and there were virtually no complaints from the press or any opposition Democrats that his response was sluggish or inadequate.”

“That stands in sharp contrast to the withering criticism President Barack Obama has received from Republicans and some in the press for his reaction to Friday’s incident on a Northwest Airlines flight heading for Detroit.”

Here’s a thought, Josh. Maybe if Obama wasn’t phoning in his response from the 9th green we’d take it more seriously…

“In his studied desire to be the unBush by responding coolly to events like this, Obama is dangerously close to failing as a leader. Yes, it is good not to shoot from the hip and make broad assertions without the facts. But Obama took three days before speaking to the American people, emerging on Monday in between golf and tennis games in Hawaii to deliver a rather tepid address that significantly underplayed what happened.”